Re: native Oracle-port on Linux -- what would it take?

From: James Youngman <JYoungman_at_vggas.com>
Date: 1997/12/23
Message-ID: <wk90tcxald.fsf@vggas.com>#1/1

>>>>> "tip" == tip <tip_at_blahblah.com> writes:

tip> In article <349fcd70.425887673_at_news.mindspring.com>, tip> Voytek Jarnot <vjarnot_at_mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> You are so full of it that it hurts me to waste the time to
>> reply. What exactly does 'most' mean to you??? Here's a
>> breakdown of some of intel's various chipsets, its the chipset
>> that the motherboard incorporates, not the motherboard itself,
>> that limits the amount of RAM.

tip> are you blind or just dumb? what does linux run on? 386, 486, tip> pentium, whatever.

tip> i'm not talking about the later model pci chipset motherboards tip> in the past two years, rather as a whole.

tip> as a whole, most motherboards that support linux do not support tip> over 128 megs.

Yes, but nobody is expecting to run large Oracle servers on a 386. The point is that well-specified new x86 machines *can* handle Oracle. Received on Tue Dec 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CST